The reinvention of Atlantic slavery : technology, labor, race, and capitalism in the greater Caribbean / Daniel B. Rood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rood, Daniel, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Economic aspects--Caribbean Area--History.

Slavery.

Slavery--Economic aspects--United States--History.

Plantations--Economic aspects--Caribbean Area--History.

Plantations.

Plantations--Economic aspects--United States--History.

Technology--Economic aspects--Caribbean Area--History.

Technology.

Technology--Economic aspects--United States--History.

Slavery--Caribbean Area--History--19th century.

Slavery--United States--History--19th century.

History.

Technology--Economic aspects.

Plantations--Economic aspects.

Slavery--Economic aspects.

United States.

Caribbean Area.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 272 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Contents:

Atlantic inversions

A Creole industrial revolution in the Cuban sugar-mill

El principio sacarino: purity, equilibrium, and whiteness in the sugar-mill

From an infrastructure of fees to an infrastructure of flows: the warehouse revolution in Havana harbor

Wrought-iron politics: racial knowledge in the making of a greater Caribbean railroad industry

Sweetness and debasement: flour and coffee in the Richmond-Rio circuit

A tropics of bread: entangled technologies and the greater Caribbean origins of the US flour industry

An international harvest: the development of the McCormick Reaper

Futures of racial capitalism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Rood, Daniel. Reinvention of Atlantic slavery.

ISBN:

9780190655266

0190655267

OCLC:

965754157